Python scoping

[Olivier Dagenais]

I saw a half-funny article on how you can get Python to support explicit
scope start/end:  just prefix your brace or keyword with the '#' character,
like so:

for c in range ( 100 ):
# do
    print c,
# next c

...or if you come from a C background...

for c in range ( 100 ):
#{
    print c,
#}

and Python is smart enough to match two different styles, too:

for c in range ( 100 ):
# do
    print c,
#}

Note, however, you still need to properly indent your code...

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"SuppamanX" <suppamanx at collector.org> wrote in message
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>    I have been using Python off and on for 6 months now and have grown to
> love it from the beginning. However, there is a facett of Python that
> annoys me somewhat. It is the 'scoping by indentation'. Coming from a
> background of 'formal' languages (e.g. Pascal, C, Java,...), I am
> accustomed to explicitly start and end my scopes with a braces. From a
> readability standpoint, it gets quite problematic for especially for some
> of the example code that I am trying to learn from.
>
> Can someone clarify why there is no explicit end for scopes?
> (i.e. IFs, FORs, WHILEs, METHODs, etc...)
>
> Thanx